"Some, though not likely in Tahrir, quietly exhaled at a democratic election and rotation of power, hopeful these gains will not be reversed.
Meanwhile, at a Christian retreat center outside of Cairo, a number of Coptic women shed tears of despair over their community’s future, as they huddled around a television and watched Morsy be proclaimed the winner.
"We will be quiet now and wait and see," said Nader Wanis, who directs a cultural center in Alexandria. "Some Copts will immediately start to advocate for our rights, but in vain. Muslims are very deceiving; they speak as if they are for human rights but they will give us nothing."

Some great photos of the peaceful protests held in Amman yesterday:
"Let me remind you that in our country, the system legally allows a man to go rape any little girl on the street and then get away with his crime by marrying her.
Let me remind you that in our country, over 112 Jordanian women were brutally murdered by their own families for “honor” in the past 10 years. Of course, our penal law happily condones this."

Eric Schmidt hung out in Israel, says it feels peaceful and ‘very much like Silicon Valley’

"Google chairman Eric Schmidt was in Israel last week, pleasing the crowds at a Tel Aviv conference by praising the engineers that come out of the ‘tech miracle’ and saying that Google’s development centers in Israel are among the company’s most efficient. “We love Israel,” he said, drawing applause from the audience.
Pleasing the crowds once more, he reiterated that Google’s Israeli engineering and sales teams’ achievements are “definitely world-class”.

"Norah al-Faiz is supposed to be a symbol of progress in Saudi Arabia. She was appointed deputy minister of education by King Abdullah in February 2009, making her the kingdom’s highest-ranking female official. At the time, many observers hailed the move as a sign of reform.
But controversy has dogged Faiz since the beginning of her tenure."